Re: Problem Infection??

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:10:43 +1100, Clifford Heath
<no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Playing around I've concluded that this is Adware planted each time my
wife visits <TBD> website.
So I neutered it in the hosts file ;-)
I am really growing to love the hosts file ;-)

I browse through an OpenBSD firewall running a Squid proxy.
There's a publically available block list for Squid that
contains a thousand or more domain names (incl wildcards)
that serve adware. Squid blocks access to all those sites,
which works *really* well.

You could adapt such a list (without the wildcards) to use
in your host file.

Clifford Heath.

Yep. I downloaded a file with close to 1400 lines of ad servers and
added another 20 of my own related to MySpace and YouTube ;-)

I also found an automated deleter for the Purityscan crap,
"OiUninstaller.exe"

Hopefully I've weeded it all out.

Also made an interesting discovery that is sort of scary... one of
these "worms" turned off auto-update on my wife's NAV. So I guess the
game is get in, turn off the defenses and then let 'er rip :-(

...Jim Thompson
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